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Backup Service (OIT TSM for Servers) or CrashPlan PCs and Laptops

OIT is now using a cloud based backup service called CrashPlan. OIT provides CrashPlan to all faculty and staff university owned laptop and desktop machines. Computer Science graduate students can also use the CrashPlan service for university owned laptop and desktop machines, instructions for setup can be found at the bottom of this page. Please note that CrashPlan should not be used to backup servers.

The purpose of the Princeton CrashPlan backup service is to protect data on university-owned desktop and laptop computers. The university purchased sufficient licenses to cover faculty and staff employees, who are permitted to register their computers for the service.

The Princeton CrashPlan backup service has been extended to include the university-owned computers provided by the Computer Science Department to its graduate students, who will be able to register the computers themselves. The service is for university-owned computers only and the software may not be installed on personally-owned systems. All Princeton faculty, staff and students can protect their personally-owned computers by purchasing a discounted license from Code42, the vendor of the CrashPlan software. OIT reserves the right to cancel CrashPlan service for students who register personally-owned systems for the University-provided service.